Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Zoor 0383

Zoora, 15 September 493 CE (?). Tombstone. Funerary (Epitaph)

White-yellowish sandstone, with a purple stain in its centre, rectangular in shape, pointed at the bottom

Angular script with rectangular letters of rather good workmanship and alignment

Incised frame, whose lower line is partially preserved Around the inscription 15 September 493 CE Negev Zoora An-naq' Cemetery

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry Edited adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Εἷς Θεός, ὁ πάντων ΔεσπάτηςΔεσπότης. ΜνεμῖονΜνημεῖον Κλαυδίου Πέτρου, ἀπαθονούντοςἀποθανόντος μητὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν β, ἐν ἔτιἔτει τπη, μηνὸς ΓορπιέουΓορπιαίου κη, ἰνδικτιῶνος β. Θάρσιθάρσει, οὐδὶςούδείς ἀθάνατος.

One (is) the God, the Lord of all. Monument of Claudius, (son) of Petros, who died having a good name (at the age) of 2 (?) years, in the year 388(?), on the 28th (day) of (the) month Gorpiaios, in (the) 2nd indiction. Be of good cheer, no one is immortal.

The attestations of the name Κλαύδιος in Zoora add significantly to the scarce Christian evidence from Palestine and Arabia, which is limited to a bishop's name recorded in the Church of the Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs at Gerasa and to a pilgrim's graffito at Wadi Haggag in Sinai. In these provinces, however, Κλαύδιος is mostly encountered as a Roman gentilicium, borne as a rule by military and civil officials.

Εἷς Θεός, ὁ πάντων ΔεσπάτηςΔεσπότης. ΜνεμῖονΜνημεῖον Κλαυδίου Πέτρου, ἀπαθονούντοςἀποθανόντος μητὰ καλοῦ ὀνόματος ἐτῶν β ἐν ἔτιἔτει τπη μηνὸς ΓορπιέουΓορπιαίου κη ἰνδικτιῶνος β Θάρσιθάρσει, οὐδὶςούδείς ἀθάνατος.

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